My Little Pony: Puzzle Party

My Little Pony: Puzzle Party is a previously-available Hasbro-licensed mobile app game by Backflip Studios and Genera Games. It is a free-to-play match-three puzzle game featuring gameplay similar to Toy Blast[1][2] and Candy Crush Saga. The game was released for iOS and Android devices between early​[​specify​]​ and October 13 of 2016, depending on the country.​[​specify​]​
The most recent version of the game has 143 levels in total.

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Development

A behind-the-scenes video of Andrea Libman recording voiceover for the game was published on the My Little Pony Facebook page on October 10, 2016.[3]

Gameplay

Puzzle Party is a level-based puzzle game in which each level is a board of colored cubes. Gameplay consists mainly of tapping sets of two or more adjacent cubes of the same color to remove them from the board. Each level has a "goal" that must be met in order for the level to be cleared, which usually involves removing a specified number of colored cubes but sometimes involves clearing away level-specific obstacles or bringing objects from the top of the screen to the bottom.

The player has a set number of moves to meet the goal requirements and clear the level, and they can hold up to a standard maximum of five lives. If the player runs out of moves, they can attain additional moves with bits (in-game currency). Otherwise, they fail the level and lose a life. Additional lives are gained automatically over time (every thirty minutes in real time) and can be bought through in-app purchases.

Based on the player post-level score, they are rated on a one to three-star scoring system. Higher scores nets the player additional bits.

Power-ups

The game features three standard power-ups to assist the player with clearing levels:

Lightning Jar: Acquired by clearing away five or six adjacent cubes of the same color. When activated, it removes all cubes in a vertical or horizontal line.

Exploding Cauldron: Acquired by clearing away seven or eight adjacent cubes of the same color. When activated, it removes all surrounding cubes in a 3x3 grid.

Parasprite Swarm: Acquired by clearing away nine or more adjacent cubes of the same color. When activated, it removes all cubes of the same color on the screen.

Power-ups can also be combined if they are adjacent to each other when activated:

Exploding Cauldron + Parasprite Swarm: Converts all cubes of the same color on the screen into an Exploding Cauldron.

Parasprite Swarm + Parasprite Swarm: Removes every single cube currently on the screen.

If the player has moves remaining when the level is cleared, one cube on the screen converts into a Lightning Jar for each move remaining, netting the player a substantial score bonus.

Additionally, there are six power-ups corresponding to each of the Mane Six that are unlocked at certain levels and are activated by clearing away cubes corresponding to each pony's color:

Apple Buck: Unlocked at Level 12, and charged by clearing away orange cubes. When activated, it removes any single cube or obstacle of the player's choice from the screen.

Sonic Rainboom: Unlocked at Level 22, and charged by clearing away blue cubes. When activated, it removes all cubes in a single vertical column.

Critter Charge: Unlocked at Level 32, and charged by clearing away green cubes. When activated, it removes all cubes in a single horizontal row.

Party Cannon: Unlocked at Level 43, and charged by clearing away pink cubes. When activated, it removes all cubes in a selected 3x3 grid.

Diamond Seamstress: Unlocked at Level 53, and charged by clearing away white cubes. When activated, it changes a single selected cube's color.

Magic Blast: Unlocked at Level 73, and charged by clearing away purple cubes. When activated, it removes all cubes from the screen that are the same color as the cube selected.

In-app purchases

Though the game is free-to-play, it is primarily monetized through freemium content and in-app purchases. Purchases include additional lives with which to play levels (plus a permanent six-life cap raise), bits to retry levels after failing, power-ups to use at the beginning of levels, and other bonuses.

Achievements

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Infinite Mode

Infinite Mode is a special Discord-themed challenge mode in Puzzle Party that opens up upon clearing level 81 of the game's main campaign. In this mode, the player takes on a continuous string of randomly-generated levels to get as high a score as possible. After every three moves the player makes, Discord has a chance of changing the colors of three randomly-selected cubes on the screen.

Infinite Mode does not require lives to play, but it does cost a life to retry a failed level.

Lawsuit and removal

On October 21, 2016, Turkish mobile game studio Peak Games filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Hasbro and Backflip Studios for allegedly cloning their mobile game Toy Blast.[1] As of May 2017, the case was settled in Peak Games' favor, and in accordance with the settlement, Hasbro and Backflip Studios have agreed to remove Puzzle Party from mobile game stores[4] on May 25.[5][6]

↑Backflip Studios. My Little Pony: Puzzle Party on the App Store. iTunes. Apple. Retrieved on 2017 May 25. “ATTENTION: The My Little Pony Puzzle Party app will be removed from the App Store on 5/25/17 and will no longer be available for download.”